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Reconstructing confined particles with complex singularities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-06-24 v2

Abstract

Complex singularities have been suggested in propagators of confined particles, e.g., the Landau-gauge gluon propagator. We rigorously reconstruct Minkowski propagators from Euclidean propagators with complex singularities. As a result, the analytically continued Wightman function is holomorphic in the tube, and the Lorentz symmetry and locality are kept intact, whereas the reconstructed Wightman function violates the temperedness and the positivity condition. Moreover, we argue that complex singularities correspond to confined zero-norm states in an indefinite metric state space.

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@article{arxiv.2103.14322,
  title  = {Reconstructing confined particles with complex singularities},
  author = {Yui Hayashi and Kei-Ichi Kondo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14322},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures, final version published in PRD; a longer version can be found at arXiv:2105.07487 [hep-th]

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